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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 (of 10)

Note 149 — KING JALI’AD OF HIND AND HIS WAZIR SHIMAS; FOLLOWED BY THE HISTORY OF KING WIRD KHAN, SON OF KING JALI’AD, WITH HIS WOMEN AND WAZIRS.[55] (continued 2)

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

Good Moslems are bound to abate such scandals; and in a case of the kind even neighbours are expected to complain before the Chief of Police. This practice forms “Vigilance Committees” all over the Mahommedan East: and we may take a leaf out of their books if dynamite-outrages continue.

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